Don't give tickets to JD-U rebels, LJP tells BJP

Updated: Saturday, August 29, 2015, 17:25 [IST]

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Patna, Aug 29: The Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) has asked the BJP not to give tickets to rebel JD-U legislators who have joined the saffron party or those planning to contest the coming assembly elections as Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) candidates.

LJP parliamentary board chairman Chirag Paswan, son of LJP chief and union minister Ram Vilas Paswan, has apprised the BJP about his party's demand not to give tickets to those who deserted the LJP in the past.

"Chirag Paswan has told BJP chief Amit Shah to keep such leaders out of the National Democratic Alliance and not give them tickets to contest the assembly polls either as candidates of the BJP or its allies," a senior LJP leader said here on Saturday.

The LJP has strong reservations about former parliamentarian Sabir Ali, who joined the BJP, and former minister Narendra Singh and his two sons, considered close to former chief minister and HAM president Jitan Ram Manjhi.

"The LJP has informed the BJP's top leadership that Narendra Singh and his two sons should not contest polls as NDA candidates as they plan to contest on HAM tickets," the LJP leader said.